JNCIS-Sec Done
A little further along the path now 
. Overall I think the Fast Track materials (esp. now with the added UTM section) covers this pretty well but I was also working from the O'Reilly JunOS Security book and had done the P level AJSEC course a month back. I was actually a little worried going into this one as the material while not very deep is broad, there's a lot of minutiae to remember on a lot of different topics that you might not touch (for example I doubt I will ever use UTM). It's not a walk in the park but personally I think the exam was easier than the coursework would lead you to believe.
Materials Used:
Juniper Fast Track Video and documents.
JunOS Security Amazon.com: JUNOS Security (9781449381714): Rob Cameron, Brad Woodberg, Patricio Giecco, Timothy Eberhard, James Quinn: Books
AJSEC Course manual
Misc. Juniper feature documentation.
Lab - 2 SRX100s
Now onto the JNCIP-Sec (when my 210H arrives for the IDP stuff, also doing the JIPS course in 2 weeks).
. Overall I think the Fast Track materials (esp. now with the added UTM section) covers this pretty well but I was also working from the O'Reilly JunOS Security book and had done the P level AJSEC course a month back. I was actually a little worried going into this one as the material while not very deep is broad, there's a lot of minutiae to remember on a lot of different topics that you might not touch (for example I doubt I will ever use UTM). It's not a walk in the park but personally I think the exam was easier than the coursework would lead you to believe.Materials Used:
Juniper Fast Track Video and documents.
JunOS Security Amazon.com: JUNOS Security (9781449381714): Rob Cameron, Brad Woodberg, Patricio Giecco, Timothy Eberhard, James Quinn: Books
AJSEC Course manual
Misc. Juniper feature documentation.
Lab - 2 SRX100s
Now onto the JNCIP-Sec (when my 210H arrives for the IDP stuff, also doing the JIPS course in 2 weeks).
We responded to the Year 2000 issue with "Y2K" solutions...isn't this the kind of thinking that got us into trouble in the first place?
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As for real world preference the ASA is still a good enterprise offering but for carrier class absolutely nothing touches the SRX5800. It's a beast of a FW, feature rich and I am really loving the JunOS CLI (there are so many tasks I used to have to export details from the ASA to edit manually that I can do quickly from the JunOS CLI) . Honestly for the work we are doing it makes the ASA look antiquated. But then we haven't been happy with the ASA and their business unit for years now (we only deployed Juniper about 4 months back), every time we've discussed new products and features with them we've been pretty underwhelmed. I'm sure we'll run into some issues as we go with the SRX, nothing's perfect, but right now I'm pretty happy we went with them.
I'd say right now I'm spending more time on the SRX, but that's really just about a day a week of actual hands on and config work. Too much time nowadays spent in meetings :}
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Also, whatcha think about the AJSEC course material. I was on the team that wrote that.
Something else to keep on your radar is the Security bootcamp. We'll be diving into that early next year, should be fun
-Bender
I'm actually in the middle of day 1 of the JIPS right now (remote) and since I know to look for it I'm not having problems but I'm listening to a guy right now having similar issues - though in this case it's that the material references exact IPs from one pod, there is a note above in the description to use your own from the lab diagram but it's easy to miss. It should really be written as 192.168.x.x0 , and have 'x = ' marked clearly at the start of the lab itself. All in all the info is there but I think when you're trying to focus on the tech side of a lab little things like this can trip you up.
That said as educational guides the technotes below each slide in the actual book are great - Concise and clear.
Soooo....can you give away any details on the Bootcamp (even ballpark availability date) ? I definitely want to give it a go next year
We've heard the variables complaint from more than one person, many actually. Which I completely agree with. The good news is that we've change that for the AJSEC class, I personally made that change
Glad to hear that overall it was a positive experience.
Definitely next year for the Security bootcamp. It's tough to say when, but for sure 2012.
Check out the materials that Ahriakin mentioned at the top of this thread. That's more than enough to get your JNCIS-SEC.
-Bender